Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <4209091E.1060703@buddydog.org> Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 13:46:54 -0500 From: Jonathan Arnold User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Can't cd into directory References: <000601c50dbd$d964f760$0b0110ac@xpbox> <4208DA37.5060000@buddydog.org> <001101c50e02$6afb3a60$0b0110ac@xpbox> In-Reply-To: <001101c50e02$6afb3a60$0b0110ac@xpbox> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes (Please reply to the mailing list, not me directly). acidblue wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Arnold" > > To: "acidblue" > Cc: > Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 7:26 AM > Subject: Re: Can't cd into directory > > >> acidblue wrote: >> >>> acidblue wrote on Tuesday, February 08, 2005 9:18 AM: >>> >>>> I'm using the following syntax: >>>> cd '/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings' >>>> I get a " No such file or directory" message. >>>> cygwin on WinXP installed to C:/ >>>> >>>> I get this message no matter which directory I try to cd >>>> into. Driving me nuts Please help. >>> >>> >>> To: >>> Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 12:26 AM >>> Subject: RE: Can't cd into directory >>> >>> Please post output of >>> mount -p >>> >>> Sure thing: >>> >>> acidblue@xpbox ~ >>> $ mount -p >>> Prefix Type Flags >>> /cygdrive system binmode >>> >>> acidblue@xpbox ~ >>> $ >> >> >> You should probably double check the pages found here: >> >> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames >> >> in the Using Cygwin document. Probably you have a problem with >> the mount table. >> >> -- >> Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) >> Amazing Developments http://www.buddydog.org >> >> I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. - >> William H. Mauldin >> > Ok I read the documents suggetsed and I am confused on how to mount my c > drive. > could some one give me the right syntax, > 'cause 'mount -s /c and mount -s c:\ won't work Yes, those are not the correct commands. You need to tell it both the win32 path and the posix path: mount -s c:\\ /c Assuming you're using the bash shell, you need to escape the first '\' in the path. But normally, if you cygdrive is /, you should have this already. Again, check out the Problems report page, and try posting a new question, with all the necessary info. http://cygwin.com/problems.html -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Amazing Developments http://www.buddydog.org I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. - William H. Mauldin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/